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To all Wine Exchangers, A Two Hands Bella’s Garden Closeout. I know what you’re thinking. What’s next? Cubs winning the World Series? One thing I can say with certainty, neither of these events have happened in the last 100 years, until today. Two Hands Bella’s Garden Shiraz is one of Australia’s most awarded, coveted, high […]

To all Wine Exchangers, This story never gets old, especially when the wine, incredibly, keeps getting better and better. Importer/winemaker/proprietor Dan Kravitz is now one of the Roussillon’s most dynamic vintners. An American guy that took the plunge a few years back and purchased a vineyard named Cabirau is on the verge of wine super-stardom. […]

To all Wine Exchangers, Let the good times roll! It’s still summer here in this neck of the woods, meaning we’re still hitting the white wine pretty hard, especially this white wine. The staff is giving me the stink eye knowing that I’m sending this offer today, their little private stash will be gone in […]

To all Wine Exchangers, As you guys know, we are always on the lookout for superb Chianti Classico at reasonable prices. Honestly, as a genre, its about as safe a bet to sell as anything we have in the store. You know a few of our go-to labels. It’s pretty much eggs, bacon, Monsanto, San […]

To all Wine Exchangers, Jean-Marc Burgaud is simply one of the greatest producers in Beaujolais. His wines thrill, but in a classic, "Damn, this is some mighty fine Beaujolais!" sort of way. The wines aren’t necessarily Burgundian in style, which is what many folks believe to be the stylistic pinnacle Beaujolais can achieve. Nope, these […]

To all Wine Exchangers, This is history on the grandest scale. No one has done it better, for longer, than Paul Draper and his passionate winemaking team. Ridge was doing ‘native yeast’ before any of the hot labels on the market today. They were doing ‘old vines’ before anyone else. They were doing ‘Zin’ before […]

To all Wine Exchangers, So, we sent out this offer a few months ago on a couple of killer Clarendon Hills closeouts. Of which, you guys responded by buying, like, everything, in, like, two hours. We were happy but we were bummed. “Darn! Wish we had more of the stuff” is what we were lamenting. […]

To all Wine Exchangers, The whole concept of buying ‘little wine’ from elite sources, one of our mantras, has been presented on these pages multiple times.  Amen and hallelujah.  But as we look back, we regretfully haven’t really had that conversation with California producers all that often.  Why?  Well, frankly, most ‘lesser’ wines from the […]

To all Wine Exchangers, How do you follow up an outstanding offer on great Bierzo from northwestern Spain?How about an even more outstanding offer on great Godello from northwestern Spain? We love it when suppliers get into a bit of a panic mode with white wine as It creates opportunity for those of us that […]

We have a wide range of people that we deal with from relative novices to serious, knowledgeable collectors.  For that reason we write a variety of things as different levels to inform.  Sometimes people just need to know how to read a label.  So here you go… Most Americans start with domestic wines where the […]